How workgroup productivity software can improve computer-supported cooperative work?

Awareness : team members need to possess shared information about each other's activities and common group progress. Mutual awareness is a direct way to increase team work productivity. Each team member's awareness is one of most significant advantages of computer-supported collaboration . VIP Task Manager is workgroup productivity software that makes common work/project performance measurable and visible for all team members. Awareness about each other progress stimulates team members to follow the leader and to work more productive.

  Task planning is very important part of awareness and powerful method of workgroup productivity increasing. When all tasks within the workgroup are intelligibly planned team members will distinctly know what tasks, when and in what order they should execute. VIP Task Manager allows planning tasks by standard and custom attributes. Task for each employee can be planned by name and order, Start and End dates, by due date, by duration, by recurrence, by priority etc.

Users can set e-mail and pop-up reminders to be sure that all tasks will be executed in time. VIP Task Manager allows color-coding of tasks on Task Tree and mark out procrastinated tasks (tasks can be marked with different colors according to time left before task due date). VIP Task Manager is a client-server groupware that provides users with flexible system of access rights.

Articulation work : cooperating individuals should be able to break work into units, distribute them among each other and, after the work is performed, reintegrate it as one complete unit. VIP Task Manager is project management and team productivity software that allows team members to break into parts and share common work within one and the same database. VIP Task Manager provides users with Task Tree mode that can be used by workgroup managers in order to break down a project into separate tasks, distribute these tasks into different task groups and create a hierarchy of task groups according to project stages, departments, clients etc. Each workgroup member can be assigned with tasks that he/she can view with a help of Task List view. VIP Task Manager is collaborative software that makes common project being divided and delegated between workgroup members as smaller tasks and on the other hand ensures project progress as one integrated unit. Task tracking and reporting are two of main functions that VIP Task Manager provides to ensure effective computer-supported collaboration . Each task can be reported by executor and tracked by supervisor and/or other team members. In order to report tasks users can update task or task group status (workflow), percent of completeness, use notes and comments to add quick reports and attach files and links directly to tasks.VIP Task Manager allows creating custom workflows and statuses according to work requirements. Any change within any task can entail appropriate notifications that will be sent to all preset team members. VIP Task Manager allows users to analyze workgroup performance by building printable reports and various charts. Reports can be exported into format of MS Excel and HTML, so they can be easily stored on PC hard-drives or posted on company web-site.